The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK

-JOuH Il dI anu us vile were IOunu
murdered in their houses near Oska.
looss, Iowa, on the 25th. The house
had been fired to conceal the crime.
There is now reason to believe that
John Vanderburg, who was shot dead
in the court room at Rockville, Mis-
souri,, on the 25th, at the conclusion of
a hearing on the charge of ~felonious
assault, was guiltless ot the crime, and
that the complainant was mistaken in
her Identification Of him. A verdict
of murder has been brought against
Lint Anderson and ed" Evans, who
fired the fatal shots. Amos Rhodes
shot and killed Louis Michaelson near
Manistee, Michigan, Oh the evening OF
the 25th, Jealousy was the cause. A
dynamite bomb was thrown against
the house of Mrs. Frances A. Hickey
at Vincennes, Indiana, on the morning
of the 25th. The explosion blew a
large hole in the side of the building,
smashed all the window glass, blew
Mrs. Hickey out of her bed, and knocked
her 1~7-year.old son %senseless on the
floor. Mrs, Hickey has received seY-
eral anonymous threatening letters,
and about three weeks ago some one
battered in the front of her house with
a coupling pin. On the evening of the
22d her son heard something strike the
house, and running out found a lighted
dynamite cartridge, and ex~tingulshed
the fuse. The motive OF the villainy
Is unknown. Diaz Cutler, q farmer Of
Grant Station, Indiana, was murdered
by some unknown person on the 18th,
and his body was placed on the rail-
road, where 1t was run over by a train.
The forest fires on the Michigan
peninsula have all been eXtinguibhed by
copious rains.
John w. Rose and Edward T.
Kinney. each about II years of age,
were arrested in Chicago on the 26th,
for robbery. Roses mother keeps a
boarding house in Qambridgeport,
Massachusetts,, and had a recent iodger
named Croker, who had $f400 in cash.
Young Rose broke into Crocker's room
and stole the money, and accompanied
by young Kinney, went to Chicago.
When arrested they had $500 IN cash
and jewelry worth about as much
more.
The first train on the Canadian
Pacific Railroad for the Vancouver
ocean terminus reached that point on
the oath. Hitherto trains stopped at
New Westminster.
THE great IRE in New York on the
morning of the 9th destroyed the Belt
Line Railroad stables, on Tenth ave-
nue. between Flfty.third and Fifty
fourth streets, with 1850 horsesj one
wing Of Jacob News silk factory i've
brick tenements, a row of frame rock
cries on Tenth avenue, opposite the
stables, and all the shanty settlement
on Flfty-thlrd street, from Tenth ave-
nue. to within three hundred feet of
Eleventh avenue. The losses OF the
railroad company are estimated at s440,-
900, and it is thought the total loss will
be $3.50, GOO. More than one hundred
families, mostly poor people. were
made homeless, and an aged woman, |
Elizabeth Walsh, aged rs, who was
sick In bed when the fire broke ont,
died of fright on being carried to the
sidewalk. A number OF goats, dogs
and pigs in the shanty settlement were
burned. The railway oompany's in.
suranees are estimated at $500, 900;
those of Jacob New at $4,000; and
the risks on the tenements at about an
equal amount.
1t Is announced that the Cana.
dian Pacific Railway has reduced the
rate on CREASED wool to 81 per 100.
The Southern Pacific rate is "a.
"A train wreck is reported on the
Houston and Texas Railroad. near
Garrett, Texas, in which the engineer
and fireman were killed. An express |
train which left Troy, New York, for
Montreal, on the evening of the 9th,
was thrown from the track, near Ad-
olson Junction, by a landslide early on
the morning of the 9th, and four cars
tumbled into Lake Champlain, Two
train hands were slightly injured,
While Joseph Porter aud wife
driving down a hill near their
home in Sullivan county. New York, |
on the 9th, the harness broke, and the
horse, taking fright, ran the wagon
a stone wall. Mrs. Porter was !
killed and her husband severely in
lured.
The Government receipts and ex-
for the month indicate a
of over $40, 600, 600. and a cor
responding reduction in the public
iebt.
AT ten minutes before three
on the morning OF the 29th, an
shock. with ''lifting mo.
lasting i've seconds was felt In
he City Of Mexico and surrounding